A typical joke: The cantankerous codger admitted that he texts his wife, but only when she’s driving. In addition, Dunham’s characters are funny on their own, perhaps none more so than Walter, the Grumpy Retiree. Even Grove City and the Blue Jackets were mentioned as punch lines. Early in the show, a fly landed on his pinkie. “I’m hearing these jokes a half-second before you are.”Īnything can be fodder for humor. He has mentioned working for Osama bin Laden but says he is not Muslim (which likely Dunham does to avoid controversy against the Muslim community). Achmed is an undead terrorist and a suicide bomber who is not very bright. “A lot of this show is ad-libbed,” he said. Achmed the Dead Terrorist is a puppet featured in stand-up comedian Jeff Dunhams ventriloquist act. Often, as he threw his voice, Dunham grinned and sometimes laughed. Dunham also chased Little Jeff around the stage - the dummy’s little legs in motion - in a fascinating moment.
It was interesting to see Dunham show the audience a bit of how the ventriloquism process works by pulling the head of the dummy from the body and bringing it to life by moving the mouth, eyes and head with his hand. Turns out there’s a how-to DVD and book, and Dunham did a funny bit with Little Jeff based on the Abbott & Costello “Who’s on First?” routine. Little Jeff mercilessly picked on Dunham, accusing him of making social outcasts out of would-be ventriloquists, and sarcastically asked him, “What’s in the box, Jeff?” Later in the show, Dunham pulled out Little Jeff, an affordable and creepily lifelike dummy that he sells to people interested in learning ventriloquism. There’s a few (bleeps) out there that spoil things for everyone else.” “That means most of us are really good people. Rather, a review of his show the following night in Singapore noted that Dunham’s Malaysian act had turned Achmed into a not-so Islamic-sounding Frenchman swapping the turban for a beret, and slapping a mustache on him to call him Jacques Merde. “Everybody is laughing at the same thing,” Dunham said. But Achmed was neither seen nor heard from in Malaysia. And when the government in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country on the other end of Asia, banned him from using Achmed, Dunham put a beret and a goatee on the bony dummy and dubbed him Jacques the Dead French Terrorist. To his surprise, he found that Achmed was a hit in both Dubai and Israel. He admitted to being scared because he wasn’t sure whether his humor would translate into other cultures, and he worried about his comedy killing, in the literal sense. “Yes, I did shows in the Middle East with Achmed the Dead Terrorist,” Dunham said. On a Steek, and Achmed the Dead Terrorist as. Not unusual, but this time, he talked about his real experiences of going on a recent world tour. Jeff Dunhams Minding the Monsters brings together your favorites - Walter, Peanut, Bubba J, Jose Jalapeno. Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham got a little personal for his “Disorderly Conduct” tour stop in the Schottenstein Center tonight, with hilarious results.īefore he took his cast of handcrafted, hand-held characters out of their individual trunks, Dunham did solo standup comedy.